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Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege (born March 1, 1955, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo), aged 71, is a Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Mukwege's honours include honorary doctor of the University of Pau, honorary doctorate from University of Angers and honorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier.

Denis Mukwege’s zodiac sign is Pisces, Chinese zodiac is Wood Goat, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Denis Mukwege’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Healer

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Denis in the U.S.?

#1712

US rank in 2025

~21,606

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

The SSA recorded 491 American boys and 5 girls named Denis in 1955: 334th among boys and 6,044th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Denis’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

9

Soul Urge · meaning

1

Personality · self-directed

The name opens on D (4) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Denis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 2 · 7

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Thursday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Aquamarine, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daffodil · 🌸 Peony · 🌸 Green Orchid

Sunlit yellow · Rose-gold · Botanical green

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1955, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Denis apart

The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights came in 2008, when Denis Mukwege was 53.

The schooling ran through University of Angers and Université libre de Bruxelles.

Wikipedia files Denis Mukwege under Democratic Republic of the Congo Pentecostals, University of Angers alumni and The Elders (organization).

Javier Bardem (1969) and Lupita Nyong'o (1983) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
University of Angers, Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Kinshasa
Awards
Civil Courage Prize (2013), Nobel Peace Prize (2018) and United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (2008)
Citizenship
Belgium and Democratic Republic of the Congo
Languages
French
Wikipedia editions
79

What the chart says

Denis, according to the stars

Core essence

Denis feels everything, and it is the best and hardest thing about them. The core of Denis is imagination with a soft heart behind it: the daydream, the creative pull, the instinct that knows how someone is doing before they do. They absorb the mood of a room and give back something kinder. Their softness is not weakness, it is the whole point.

The vibe

Underneath, Denis processes by talking. The Moon in Gemini means a feeling is not real until it has been said out loud, ideally to two people, ideally with a joke attached. What Denis needs to feel safe is someone who will listen to the whole thought, including the three tangents, without rushing them to a point.

How Denis wants to be loved

Denis wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Denis you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Denis creates

How Denis makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Denis creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Denis is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Denis is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Denis is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Denis's birth date. Working below.

Where Denis sits

Six lines

Denis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Denis

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Denis

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Denis

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Denis

You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.

PracticalVisionary
Denis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Denis

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Bukavu on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Denis’s birth-night reference starProcyonyellow-white · Canis MinorProcyon, in Canis Minor. A yellow-white star, 82° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Procyon →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 32.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Bukavu that night

Computed for 2.49°S, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Bukavu was Procyon, in Canis Minor, 82.0° up.

The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 98 catalog stars were up in all.

Bukavu sits at 2.5°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Sun 39° below the horizon, Moon up and 53% lit at first quarter.

How unusual Denis's chart is

Chart pattern score

39 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

T-square onto Neptune · Five planets retrograde

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Denis Mukwege in 15 seconds

Pisces Sun

Feels it all, owns none of it.

Denis Mukwege's Sun was in Pisces for the whole of March 1, 1955, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Pisces means →

Wood Goat

Makes everything a bit more beautiful.

Denis Mukwege was born on March 1, 1955, which falls in a Wood Goat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Goat means →

Life Path 6

Everyone's person. Never off duty.

Denis Mukwege's birth date, March 1, 1955, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Denis’s chart

Denis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 15° Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Jupiter flows with Saturn · Trine, 0.9° orbSun grinds against Moon · Square, 1.5° orbVenus grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.9° orbVenus faces off with Uranus · Opposition, 2° orbSaturn flows with Uranus · Trine, 2.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.8° orbJupiter fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 3.7° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 4° orbSun in Pisces · 10°03′☉10°Moon in Gemini · 8°36′☽8°Mercury in Aquarius · 15°11′☿15°Venus in Capricorn · 26°03′♀26°Mars in Taurus · 2°05′♂2°Jupiter in Cancer · 20°16′ · retrograde♃℞20°Saturn in Scorpio · 21°11′ · retrograde♄℞21°Uranus in Cancer · 24°01′ · retrograde♅℞24°Neptune in Libra · 27°59′ · retrograde♆℞27°Pluto in Leo · 25°13′ · retrograde♇℞25°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitertrineSaturn0.9° orb

    Denis’s growth flows straight into their discipline. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableVenussquareNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb

    Denis’s affections grind against their imagination. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenusoppositionUranus1.5° to 2.6° orb

    Denis’s affections pull against their need for freedom from across the wheel.

  • stableSaturntrineUranus2.8° to 2.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.8° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionNeptune3.7° to 4.5° orb

  • stableJupiterconjunctionUranus3.7° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune4.0° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter5.2° to 6.4° orb

  • stableMercurysquareSaturn5.8° to 6.2° orb

  • stableVenussquareMars5.8° to 6.3° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air3 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal4 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Denis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironAquarius 2°39′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresCapricorn 10°06′ (moves 0.33° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 16°55′ (moves 0.65° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Libra 19°34′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 28°53′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres sextile Sun 0.1°
  • Chiron square Mars 0.6°
  • Hygiea square Jupiter 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.8°

Denis’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♆ Neptune8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn5 pts

    disposes Venus; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Denis’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Venus, Uranus, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Venus · Mars, Neptune, VenusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus quincunx Pluto 0.8°
  • Sun semi-square Venus 1.0°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.0°
  • Uranus semi-sextile Pluto 1.2°

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Denis’s cards

Computed from March 1, 1955. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Healer

Western zodiac

Pisces

Chinese zodiac

Goat 未

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♃ Ruled by Jupiter

Tin Sn

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

乙

yin Wood

未

Goat

Earth

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

酉

Rooster

Metal

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Denis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1187542 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Denis Mukwege.

Quick answers about Denis Mukwege’s chart

How old is Denis Mukwege?
Denis Mukwege is 71 years old, born March 1, 1955 in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What zodiac sign is Denis Mukwege?
Denis Mukwege is a Pisces: born March 1, 1955, which puts the Sun in Pisces for the whole of that day.
What is Denis Mukwege's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Goat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the March 1, 1955 birth.
What is Denis Mukwege's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Denis Mukwege's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Denis Mukwege's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Denis Mukwege's dominant planet?
Neptune, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Pisces; disposes Sun; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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